NJ man targets cars, buildings in drunken Delray outburst, say police

Jason Stoveken is facing charges after he allegedly punched cars and urinated…

June 3, 2013|By Brett Clarkson, Sun Sentinel

If what cops say is true, Jason Stoveken gives new meaning to the term 'punch drunk.'

An intoxicated New Jersey "jerk" punched several cars and peed on a building in a post-midnight stumble down Atlantic Avenue, according to a Delray Beach arrest report.

The 30-year-old Scotch Plains, N.J., man attracted the attention of two officers on foot patrol in the 400 block of the bustling thoroughfare early Sunday.

A caller told police the man was shouting profanities, stumbling and punching cars on the south side of Atlantic.

The officers arrived at the scene, where they heard more complaints. An employee of a frozen yogurt store said the man was "very drunk and he is acting like a jerk," the arrest report said.

The owner of a nearby restaurant also told police the guy urinated on the side of the building.

The man, later identified by police as Stoveken, slipped into a taxi before the officers could talk to him, but he got out at the next block, police said.

The officers caught up with him as he approached an ATM. There, they noticed Stoveken's bloody knuckles, police said.

One officer asked Stoveken where he was going.

"None of your business," was the response, according to the report.

The officer said police had been receiving several complaints about Stoveken's behavior, to which Stoveken told the officer in no uncertain terms where to go, police said.

After telling officers he had enough money to get into a cab, Stoveken walked toward oncoming traffic. The officer grabbed him by the shoulder and Stoveken got into the cab, where he swore at the officers "more times than I can count," one of them noted in the report.

But the cab driver didn't want to take Stoveken, who refused twice to get out of the taxi, police said. Officers pulled him out and arrested him.

Brought to a holding cell at the Delray Beach police headquarters on Atlantic Avenue, Stoveken continued to punch the cell door and threatened to beat up police officers, the arrest report stated.

Stoveken was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer without violence, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office booking blotter.